FIRE UP wrote:
Groover wrote:
Because this thing is in such an awkward place to get to I called my Freightliner dealer about getting their pig tail. They quoted me $141 and a full week delivery! I about fell out of my chair when they told me that! I can get a Ford, Ram or GM connector today for $14.95 from any parts house in town. I guess I will be cutting off their connector and just splicing the wires. I wish that they had used something more available.
You know, no body said owning or operating these KLEENEX boxes on wheels would be cheap. Some of these items on these coaches are seriously high priced. That round, 9-hole plug you found earlier, I stated it's the front diagnostic port. Well, you should have a grey, plastic, knurled cap that attaches to that diagnostic port and, it has a little fiber retainer so you don't loose that cap. But, in the event you do loose it, Freightliner wants a whopping $20.00 for that little cap!!!! Yeow!!!
So, it's no surprise what they want for some of their electrical parts/harness's and more.
Scott
I have a customer who retired as the lead buyer from a major truck manufacturer. He only purchased replacement parts for vehicles they manufactured, and only to be resold at authorized dealers. He bought roughly 1/2 a billion dollars of parts per year for his company. He told me that he never saw an end user walk out the door of a dealer paying less than EIGHT times the manufacturer's cost. So if he bought a thousand coolant reservoirs for ten bucks each, the best you could hope for, as a high value, high volume customer at the dealer's part counter, was to walk out the door paying $80. If you showed up in your chinos and boat shoes, looking for the same part for your MH, apparently you aren't going to get the $80 price, LOL.
